>A friend is looking at buying a new version of the Asus Triton-II
>Pentium board with a AIC7880 onboard. I remembered there being something
>about cheapo versions of the AIC chips with fewer SCBs. Is the 7880 one
>of them?

The 7880 is the one you want.  If you can find a motherboard that also
adds includes external SRAM for the 7880, you're especially in luck since
you get 255 SCBs instead of the standard internal 16.

It looks like the 2940UW cards can also be modified to take external
SRAM.  I'm going to try this on one of the trash cards we have at work.
If I can get it to work, then this would be a low cost performance booster
for servers.

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Justin T. Gibbs
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